It's time for our annual ranking of North American rotational molders. This week we publish the top 100, but online we have the full data on 118 firms. Let's take a look behind the numbers.
The biggest news is the combined listing of Moeller Marine Products Inc. and Inca Molded Products Inc., Both are owned by SeaStar Solutions Inc., but had been ranked separately.
With rotational molding sales of $2.46 billion, this year's ranking total is up 3.8 percent, compared with just 1 percent growth in last year's edition.
53 percent of reporting firms, had growth with 12 percent increases on average. Only a few toy makers and specialty firms reported declines.
The most popular resin grades of polyethylene saw an increase in pricing of 7 percent, with polypropylene following at 3 percent. Agricultural/industrial tanks still rank as the top end market for rotational molding, followed closely by recreational/sporting goods.
This year there were three firms tied at $50 million, making the Top 10 actually 11 firms. A tally of these puts the top firms pulling in a little over 50 percent of the total ranked sales. Keeping with the top 11 firms idea: here is a 10-year history of their ranked sales:
Welcome to the ranking:
Rotomolding Inc. , a custom molder in Little Falls, Minn.
These are the fastest moving companies:
Simplay3 Co. of Streetsboro, Ohio, moved up 51 spaces to rank at No. 70.
Inca Plastics Molding Co. Inc. of Adelanto, Calif., moved up 17 spaces to rank at No. 55.
Red Line Plastics LLC of Manitowoc, Wis., moved up 16 spaces to rank at No. 79.
Smak Plastics Inc. of Vancouver, Wash. moved up 16 spaces to rank at No. 45.
Forté Products of Kansas City, Mo., moved up 14 spaces to rank at No. 25.
Watkins Manufacturing Corp. of Vista, Calif., moved up eight spaces to rank at No. 105.
Integrity Rotational Molding LLC of Plainfield, Ind., moved up eight spaces to rank at No. 78.
ShoreMaster LLC of Fergus Falls, Minn., moved up seven spaces to rank at No. 60.
Ken Ross Inc. of Wylie, Texas, moved up seven spaces to rank at No. 99.
Rotomold USA of Claremore, Okla., moved up seven spaces to rank at No. 65.
Premier O.E.M. of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, moved up seven spaces to rank at No. 35.
Rotational Molding of Utah of Brigham City, Utah, moved up seven spaces to rank at No. 48
Make sure to check out the ranking in the Aug. 13 print edition of Plastics News. See our website for the full listing of 118 firms. www.plasticsnews.com/rankings/rotomolders.
We also sell the ranking data in the Data Store section of our website at www.plasticsnews.com/section/store.
If you work for a company that is missing from the ranking, we would like to include you next time. Just send a note to Hollee Keller at [email protected] or mail your information to Plastics News, P.O. Box 790, Tallmadge, Ohio 44278.
